Rafał Zdunek received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications, and a D.Sc. (habilitation) degree in electronics, from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, in 1997, 2002, and 2015, respectively. In 2001, he joined the Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland, where he is currently an Associate Professor. In 2004, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a research scientist at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan. His current research interests include machine-learning methods in signal/image processing and data mining. He has published over 100 technical papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, including co-authoring monograph Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorizations: Applications to Exploratory Multi-way Data Analysis and Blind Source Separation (Wiley, 2009). His works have more than 1000 citations (Web of Science), h-index = 15.